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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8060
pubmed:dateCreated
1978-4-17
pubmed:abstractText
45 adults with acute leukaemia or chronic myeloid leukaemia and a control group of patients from the same hospital were asked about the people they had close social contact with before their illness, and about their use of drugs and chemicals. 18 (40%) leukaemia and 6 (13%) control patients had close social contact with hospital personnel or leukaemia patients. 8 (18%) leukaemia patients, but no control patients, had been in close contact with haemotological ward personnel. These differences were statistically significant. 9 (20%) leukaemia and 4 (9%) control patients lived in the same house as healthy persons working in a hospital. No conclusion could be drawn from differences between the two groups in their use of drugs, since the possibility that they were used to treat initial symptoms of leukaemia could not be excluded. Exposure to chemicals, including weed-killers and agricultural insecticides containing a benzene-ring known to be leukaemogenic, was about the same in the two groups.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0140-6736
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
18
pubmed:volume
1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
350-2
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1978
pubmed:articleTitle
Contact with hospital, drugs, and chemicals as aetiological factors in leukaemia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article